We caught up with indie rock band Say Anything before their sold-out headlining show at New York's Nokia Theater this past weekend, and got the SoCal sextet — lead singer Max Bemis, drummer Coby Linder, keyboardist Parker Case and guitarists Alex Kent, Jake Turner and Jeff Turner — to share their most memorable tour pranks, plans for this summer's upcoming Warped Tour and the meaning behind "Daddy."

What are some of the best tour pranks you've pulled or have had pulled on you?
Jake: The only April Fool's joke I remember anyone pulling on us on tour was when we were on our way to a venue and Indy, our old tour manager, decided he was going to tell us the show was cancelled. It was an overnight drive and I was so tired and totally stoked to get to the show. Then he says, "Oh, I don't know if I told you [but the show was cancelled]." He went on for a good hour — I was so bummed because we had driven all this way and it got cancelled.
Max: He's a sick guy.
Jake: Yeah, it was really messed up. This was was one of our first tours and it was just a really gnarly thing to do - right when we get to the city limits he was like "oh by the way, April Fool's."

Did you do anything to get back at him?
Alex: (laughing) We fired him! [Another thing was] when we were on tour with Saves the Day [last year], they got all the bands together on the whole tour and brought them on stage during one of our songs with a table, a birthday cake, hats, streamers, a piñata, balloons and chairs, sat down and had a birthday party.
Jake: It was actually for Coby's girlfriend's birthday. We were in the middle of a set -
Coby: - but we knew it was coming, so we learned a Saves the Day song and when they walked on stage we started playing it.
Jake: Everyone was confused.
Parker: You can watch it on YouTube.
Coby: It was great. We had tried earlier [to prank them] by going to the Hooters across the street and bringing three girls over and standing them next to Saves the Day on stage just dancing awkwardly with them. The girls were pretty great at it and Saves the Day loved it.

Are there any recommendations you would give to someone who's trying to pull a successful prank?
Coby: Just don't ruin another band's show. Don't unplug their instruments.
Max: We actually did that to HelloGoodbye. We unplugged their instruments and plugged in different instruments and started playing.
Alex: We didn't ruin it, we played it better!
Jake: It was in the UK. Usually we have in-ear [monitors] so the front of house doesn't really matter to us, but that whole tour we were all on monitors. We had this ongoing joke between us and Hellogoodbye where we would go to the front of house and just say "Dill?" through the monitors. The crowd couldn't hear it, but they could hear it on stage.
Alex: It was so loud.
Jake: We were sharing a sound guy, so we were allowed one a night, but at Brixton Academy, it got really intense. There were three different "Dills" throughout the set, and Max ended up screaming into the microphone from front of house.

Who started this?
Jake: It was their little thing
Coby: That's usually how it goes, someone starts it and we usually take it.
Max: We finesse it.
Jake: I think Biffy Clyro's already saying "Daddy."